Competency-based education (CBE) is a model that guides the educational process toward acquisition of the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed for effective professional practice in service of the public. Increasingly adopted by medicine and other professions, the CBE model involves establishing competency goals, developing curricula and other experiences designed to help students reach thes...

introduction: recently, the accreditation program has been used increasingly by an emphasis on patient safety. in iran, efforts have been made to establish the accreditation program. in 2011, it replaced previous standards of traditional evaluation system. as the impact of accreditation plan need internal self assessment against minimal standards, this study aimed to survey the readiness of sel...

To advance understanding of public health accreditation, we analyzed data on the North Carolina Local Health Department Accreditation program. We surveyed accredited health departments on barriers to and supports of accreditation preparation, performance on accreditation standards, and benefits and improvements after accreditation. All 48 accredited agencies responded to the survey. All agencie...

The problems in Canada with laboratory medicine were recently discussed in CMAJ. The Canadian Association of Pathologists released a 5-point action plan following its 2008 annual meeting. We fully endorse the call for mandatory external testing of proficiency for all Canadian medical laboratories and the dissemination of a quality-management checklist for diagnostic immunohistochemistry. Howeve...

introduction. accreditation has a long antecedence in western countries educational systems and its history of implementation is more than a century in a country such as united states of america. in european countries, also different activities have been implied throughout the accreditation and its implementation has become an essential. now, in our country the experts also think of the accredi...

Engineering education in the US is undergoing rapid changes, partly in response to changes in accreditation criteria, but also because of several reports produced by the US government and by professional societies outlining the needs for change in the way we train engineers and computer scientists to meet the challenges of this century. Reports such as Educating the Engineer of 2020 and Rising ...

The public, governmental agencies, and payers expect medical professional organisations to develop practice guidelines and technical standards. The American College of Radiology proactively addresses these topics as well as other quality and safety interests including appropriateness criteria and accreditation. The College is also actively involved in development of a national radiology data ba...

The paper is devoted to improving the provision and quality control of forensic activities in Russian Federation. purpose study develop theoretically practically significant proposals for creation a Unified Register Forensic Expert Personnel Organizations. methodological basis comprises general scientific methods cognition, namely analysis, synthesis modeling; private methods, analogy, statisti...

An elusive concept to capture and convey, culture—in terms of a way of life—is at the heart of interior design education. The discipline’s commitment to understanding and responding to the needs of all humans is also reflected in CIDA (Council for Interior Design Accreditation) 2014 Professional Standards that mandate the demonstration of cultural competency in interior design education. CIDA S...

Training cardiovascular specialists in the present era is highly complex. The list of topics and procedures continues to grow; the required knowledge base for providing cutting-edge clinical care and passing examinations is increasing; and technologies and research are advancing rapidly. Cardiology fellows face a changing template of demands from training programs, governing bodies, professiona...